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2 Schillings - Gottfried III of Dalenbrok
| Issuer | Lordship of Heinsberg |
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| Year | 1361-1395 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Gottfried III, crowned and robed, standing in Gothic style within a beaded inner circle. The lord holds a globus cruciger in his left hand and a lily-scepter in his right, both rendered in fine relief. The figure is draped in a long flowing mantle, with facial features including a beard visible beneath the crown. A Latin legend encircles the periphery of the coin outside the beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | A floriate or ornamental cross with elaborately decorated arms occupies the central field, featuring a complex floral or Gothic knot motif at the intersection of the arms. The four quadrants formed by the cross contain decorative foliate elements and small heraldic or ornamental devices. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with a Latin circular legend running between the inner and outer borders. The overall style is consistent with late 14th-century Rhenish coin production. |
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Gottfried III ruled Heinsberg during a period when the lower Rhine was fractured among dozens of small lordships, each asserting the right to strike coin partly as political theater and partly out of genuine commercial necessity. The regional currency competition was fierce enough that several Rhenish princes attempted, with limited success, to standardize circulating silver through multilateral agreements in the mid-fourteenth century.
Heinsberg's coinage rarely surfaces, and the long reign date range assigned to this type reflects genuine uncertainty in the numismatic literature rather than confident attribution.